None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.